Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
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Page 58
Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower , Before
milk - white , now purple with love's wound , And maidens call it love - in -
idleness . A Midsummer Night's Dream . Act ii . Sc . 1.1 I'll put a girdle round
about the ...
Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell : It fell upon a little western flower , Before
milk - white , now purple with love's wound , And maidens call it love - in -
idleness . A Midsummer Night's Dream . Act ii . Sc . 1.1 I'll put a girdle round
about the ...
Page 77
What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief . Act iii . Sc.2 . A snapper -
up of unconsidered trifles . Act iv . Sc . 3.3 A merry heart goes all the day , Your
sad tires in a mile - a . Ibid . O Proserpina , For the flowers now , that frighted thou
...
What's gone and what's past help Should be past grief . Act iii . Sc.2 . A snapper -
up of unconsidered trifles . Act iv . Sc . 3.3 A merry heart goes all the day , Your
sad tires in a mile - a . Ibid . O Proserpina , For the flowers now , that frighted thou
...
Page 106
This bud of love , by summer's ripening breath , May prove a beauteous flower
when next we meet . Ibid.2 How silver - sweet sound lovers ' tongues by night ,
Like softest music to attending ears ! Ibid.2 Good night , good night ! parting is
such ...
This bud of love , by summer's ripening breath , May prove a beauteous flower
when next we meet . Ibid.2 How silver - sweet sound lovers ' tongues by night ,
Like softest music to attending ears ! Ibid.2 Good night , good night ! parting is
such ...
Page 117
To beguile the time , Look like the time ; bear welcome in your eye , Your hand ,
your tongue : look like the innocent flower , But be the serpent under ' t .. Ibid .
Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and ...
To beguile the time , Look like the time ; bear welcome in your eye , Your hand ,
your tongue : look like the innocent flower , But be the serpent under ' t .. Ibid .
Which shall to all our nights and days to come Give solely sovereign sway and ...
Page 159
The most patient man in loss , the most coldest that ever turned up ace . Sc . 3 .
Hark , hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings , And Phoebus ' gins arise , His
steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies ; And winking Mary -
buds ...
The most patient man in loss , the most coldest that ever turned up ace . Sc . 3 .
Hark , hark ! the lark at heaven's gate sings , And Phoebus ' gins arise , His
steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies ; And winking Mary -
buds ...
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| Title | Familiar Quotations: a Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature |
| Compiled by | John Bartlett |
| Edition | 9 |
| Publisher | Little, Brown, and Company, 1894 |
| Original from | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Digitized | 10 Oct 2014 |
| Length | 1158 pages |
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